World Cup 2014

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#41 Liu bie

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Posted 18 June 2014 - 06:01 PM

Let see if Spain will be out or still has hope.

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#42 Lid

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Posted 18 June 2014 - 08:58 PM

DOWN GOES SPAIN!

Wow, unbelievable.

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#43 Liu bie

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Posted 18 June 2014 - 09:18 PM

DOWN GOES SPAIN!

Wow, unbelievable.

A new champion will rise

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Posted 18 June 2014 - 09:31 PM

Ohhh!!! Down goes Spain it was expected they played like a bunch of amateurs :facepalm: congrats to Chile they deserved it :thumb:

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#45 rocci

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 12:06 AM

What happen to France, happen to Spain this time. Curse of the champion?

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 12:58 AM

Wasn't Spain running it's mouth prior to the tournament? I don't know that anyone has made a worse showing than Spain. Even the teams that are supposed to stink are playing better.

#47 Liu bie

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 06:42 PM

Another powerful to fall or rise England

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#48 Sakamaki Izayoi

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 06:59 PM

HEre comes let's see Rooney fails once more.

Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 19 June 2014 - 07:47 PM.

#49 Liu bie

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 09:34 PM

HEre comes let's see Rooney fails once more.

lol yet England is alive

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 11:59 PM

Monster effort by Japan and it comes away empty. A lot of chances but it results in a draw, 0-0

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 11:02 AM

Wasn't Spain running it's mouth prior to the tournament? I don't know that anyone has made a worse showing than Spain. Even the teams that are supposed to stink are playing better.

I would not say that it was running its mouth. Soccer is easily the most popular sport in Spain. However, Spain had only won an international trophy in decades, in spite of there are many excellent spanish players. So, after winning three cups straight -two European cups and one World cup-, people had given themselves too many hopes.

But yes, definitely it was a terrible showing. It reminded me of France several years ago.

Anyway this chat about Spain and the world cup in what is essentially an anime forum has reminded me of something funny. You will see, in 1982 the World Cup was held in Spain. The official mascot of that cup was Naranjito. There was a big deal of Naranjito merchandising... including an anime series! Its name was "Futbol en Accción" and it was made in 1982 by Nippon Animation (famous by adapting works from Western literature to anime and by shows such like Tomorrow's Joe, Votoms, Captain Tsubasa J, Hunter X Hunter and Corrector Yui).

Do you think it is strange or interesting? Well, now you know something new (a piece of obscure and useless trivia, but still it is something new)... And knowing is the half of battle (I tried hard to NOT make a G. I. Joe joke. I failed)

Edited by Jenskott, 20 June 2014 - 11:09 AM.

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#52 Enkai

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 06:09 PM

Well, England are out. That was disappointing for Italy, Costa Rica played extremely well, it is honestly so surprising that out of all 4 teams in this group. Costa Rica is the team that has won two games and automatically qualified to the next round! :ermm: Oh well England played incredibly poorly yesterday and at least now Italy vs Uruguay will 100% be an exciting match throughout the 90 minutes. :cry:

#53 六道仙人

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 06:31 PM

Honestly I'm not surprised from this outcome... sultriness and humidity don't help italian players while costa rica is usually get used to this weather conditions (like all south american teams).

So, under this climatic conditions (the game was started at 1:00pm local), the "azzurri" team, who doesn't have any runners (maybe only cerci), collapsed under a good team like costa rica. Now we cannot lost against the Uruguay, which will be very difficuls. They have a strong forwards like Suarez and Cavani. Besides, we have some lousy and overstimated players (especially in defense).

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 11:22 PM

How about that France team. The Swiss team just didn't have any answers (well, until close to the end).

Edited by Lid, 20 June 2014 - 11:23 PM.

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 11:36 PM

I have been on and off following it (I had an extremely heavy workload this week), but I have free time now! I'm excited for tomorrow's and Sunday's matches.

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#56 Enkai

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 11:41 PM

Honestly I'm not surprised from this outcome... sultriness and humidity don't help italian players while costa rica is usually get used to this weather conditions (like all south american teams).

So, under this climatic conditions (the game was started at 1:00pm local), the "azzurri" team, who doesn't have any runners (maybe only cerci), collapsed under a good team like costa rica. Now we cannot lost against the Uruguay, which will be very difficuls. They have a strong forwards like Suarez and Cavani. Besides, we have some lousy and overstimated players (especially in defense).

Yeah climate does play a part, but by now they should be use to it and time zone too. I think Italy should have played Immobile instead of Insigne, would have probably been more effective and there would be less pressure on Balotelli. Really disappointing performance in terms of what people expect from Italy.

I have been on and off following it (I had an extremely heavy workload this week), but I have free time now! I'm excited for tomorrow's and Sunday's matches.

Monday will be an awesome day in terms of the WC matches, all 4 matches feature big teams or matches that depend on who is going through to the next round!

#57 Sakamaki Izayoi

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Posted 21 June 2014 - 12:36 AM

Honestly I'm not surprised from this outcome... sultriness and humidity don't help italian players while costa rica is usually get used to this weather conditions (like all south american teams).
So, under this climatic conditions (the game was started at 1:00pm local), the "azzurri" team, who doesn't have any runners (maybe only cerci), collapsed under a good team like costa rica. Now we cannot lost against the Uruguay, which will be very difficuls. They have a strong forwards like Suarez and Cavani. Besides, we have some lousy and overstimated players (especially in defense).

This weather excuse is totally bs, i mean Balotelli alone wasted two easy chances to score.

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Posted 21 June 2014 - 01:00 AM

enkai, I agree! However because of work, I will be missing most of them (I will record though). watching the games is really exciting, to me it doesn't really matter who wins.

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